DISCO has been ordered to go into the subspace rift made by the DMA to gather any readings or information they can about the anomaly. Things are going nominally at first, but when the ship gets inside, there is nothing to be found. They are in a data-less void.
Zora, the AI that lives in and runs the ship, is having a rough day with no data to crunch. There is an invisible barrier closing in, about to chew the whole ship and crew into smithereens. Book is having deep hallucinations about his father. And an ensign is lost when there is a sudden hull breach.
Gray teaches Zora how to play games; the crew launches a desperate plan using 20th century earth sonar technology; everyone but the captain goes into a pattern buffer; and Zora sings an old jazz standard while superheated plasma starts to melt the ship to slag.
Are we having fun yet?!
